I would even say that these are the laziest cabbage rolls. Why do I say so? Because here you don't even have to form, as is customary, the stuffed cabbage rolls themselves. There will be no need to bother with other points. It is enough to boil and extinguish everything beautifully, and the incredible yummy will soon delight you and all those who could not wait until everything is ready.

By the way, this second dish will delight not only with the simplicity of preparation, but, I will reveal the secret, this time we will entrust almost the entire process to the multicooker.

Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls made according to this recipe won't take much of your time. After all, they will not be preparing for long. Yes, and we will move away from various unhelpful processes, tk. let's not fry anything!

You will say that the dish looks like pilaf to you. Yes, there are some similarities. But! The taste of this story will be exactly like cabbage rolls - juicy, healthy and tasty.

Cooking time: about an hour in a cartoon plus 15-30 minutes for preparation, depending on the presence / absence minced meat

Complexity: below the average

Main Ingredients:

salt and spices to taste

To fill:

broth (water) - glass

tomato paste - 3-4 tablespoons

salt and spices to taste

Preparation

Let's start cooking with rice. It must first be rinsed steeply in several waters.

Then pour hot water, let it swell a little.

Thin meat, preferably beef with pork or chicken. I had minced meat, left after cutlets. I slightly salted it and seasoned it with spices.

Then we need to chop the cabbage into small strips.

Peel the onion, rinse and cut into cubes or strips.

Peeled and washed carrots should be grated on a coarse grater. You can just shred with a knife.

Let's mix all the ingredients. Let's let them fill with each other's juices. In the meantime, prepare the filling by mixing water, mayonnaise and tomato paste. You can take a little more water, I added during the cooking process.

We are entering the home stretch. Pour some oil into the multicooker bowl and send rice with vegetables and minced meat here, stir everything.
Add the cabbage and stir again.

Fill it with the resulting gravy - so that everything is covered with it. It remains to set the desired mode in the multicooker. This is Plov. It doesn't matter if you don't find this option in your gadget. The program "Baking", and "Stewing", and "Porridge" will suit you. Cooking for 50-60 minutes. You will see when it is ready - namely, when all the liquid has evaporated.

Do not rush to turn off the device. Let the stuffed cabbage stand under the lid, but in the "Heating" mode. If you took young cabbage, it will take less time. Taste and serve. How to serve? Like pilaf. Or you can do it like in my photo - there you just have to pinch off, everything will look like lazy stuffed cabbage rolls. You will love it!

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Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls were invented by people who know how to value time. "Correct" cabbage rolls are very beautiful, but no one wants to sacrifice rest and communication with loved ones, and no one should. Moreover, the taste of "lazy" cabbage rolls does not differ at all from neat rolls or rolls.

You can figure out for a very long time who actually cooked lazy cabbage rolls for the first time. Throughout Europe and Asia, each nation recognizes its own in the cooking technology of this dish. national recipe... One chef will say that you need to season cabbage, rice and meat with sour cream or tomato sauce. Another will not agree with this and, in addition, will make a comment on the cooking technique, the method of heat treatment, and so on - ad infinitum. Each of them will be right. Therefore, we are just sharing the secrets of delicious home cooking.

Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls - basic technological principles

There are a lot of options for lazy stuffed cabbage in different cuisines of the world. But, without a doubt, lazy cabbage rolls are a derivative of traditional cabbage rolls, which are small portions of meat or minced fish, as well as other types of fillings, wrapped in cabbage, grape leaves, young shoots of beets. It is known that in old Russian cuisine, stuffing, meat or minced meat was wrapped in young horseradish leaves.

To the list of ingredients for cooking lazy cabbage rolls the same foods are included. It follows that any recipe for ordinary cabbage rolls, rolls, cabbage sausages, dolma can be easily transformed into a "lazy" dish. To do this, you just need to chop the "wrapper" and combine it with minced meat or any other filling.

But lazy cabbage rolls have two ways of cooking, related to the peculiarities of regional cuisines. In addition to the variety of ingredients that make up lazy cabbage rolls, there are differences in the way the dish is decorated.

The first way involves the formation of semi-finished products from minced meat or cutlet mass, together with chopped cabbage, in the form of sausages, balls, ovals, which are then baked, fried or steamed, served with sauce. Such a dish looks more like meatballs in shape.

Second way- simpler, and the dish looks like a puff stew or azu: all the ingredients are stacked in layers in a heat-resistant saucepan or goose pan, then poured with sauce and stewed on the stove or in the oven. In this way, you can lay the layers of minced meat and shredded cabbage on a baking sheet and bake in the oven, as housewives do, who inherited the traditions of South Slavic village cuisine.

The rest of the nuances of cooking depend on your own choice and taste. Lazy cabbage rolls are a dish that will not take much time to cook, so you can safely include it in the menu for family meals, and the composition of the ingredients can be easily changed, depending on the season, availability of products, individual tastes, mood.

Some of the recipes for lazy minced cabbage rolls, offered below, can already be transferred to your culinary notebook and start cooking. Remember that the proposed recipes are not medical, but culinary, and therefore creativity to their execution is only welcomed.

1. Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls with minced veal and rice

Ingredients:

Veal, minced 700 g

Carrots 200 g

Pork fat 250 g

Sour cream 120 g

Tomato puree 80 g

White cabbage 600 g

Egg 1 pc.

Spices and chopped herbs

Preparation:

Finely chop the veal and bacon, finely chop the cabbage, grate the carrots, cut the onion into cubes.

Saute carrots and onions until tender. Prepare cutlet mass: Combine meat, bacon, cabbage and half of the sautéed vegetables in a large container. Add egg, prepared rice, spices. Mix thoroughly and beat the minced meat. Keep the mass in the refrigerator for half an hour, then form the semi-finished products in the form of cylinders, 5-6 cm long and no more than 2.5 cm in diameter.

V a large pot install a grate or oven, pour water. Steam the semi-finished products so that a protein film forms on the surface, which will help preserve the juiciness of lazy cabbage rolls when baked in the oven.

Transfer the lazy cabbage rolls to a baking dish. Combine the remaining onions and carrots with sour cream and tomato, add spices to taste. Fill the cabbage rolls with the resulting mixture. Place the dish in a preheated oven for fifteen minutes. Simmer at 200 ° C. Ready dish garnish with herbs before serving.

2. Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls with minced chicken and dried fruit in a creamy sauce

Products:

Parboiled rice 100 g

Dried apricots 80 g

Chicken breast 700 g

Cream (20%) 300 ml

Apple 1 pc.

Bay leaf, pepper

Sauerkraut 400 g

Oil 120 g

Cooking procedure:

Boil rice until half cooked in salted water. Bow and chicken breast Scroll twice through the fine mesh of a meat grinder. Add spices, chilled rice, grated apple and finely chopped cabbage to taste. Add dried apricots to the minced meat, cut into small and thin strips. Form small convenience foods and place in a richly oiled baking dish. Bake at 220 ° C for 10 minutes. Then pour the cream into the mold, reduce the temperature to 170 ° C, and simmer for another 10 minutes. Decorate the finished dish with leafy greens.

3. Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls with minced pork and prunes

Products:

Pork neck 900 g

Prunes 100 g

Carrots 150 g

Chili ketchup 250 g

Cabbage, white cabbage 5-6 leaves

Cooking oil 100 g

Rusks, white 150 g

Preparation:

Chop onions, carrots and prunes small cubes, simmer in a skillet until soft. Grind the pork pulp with a meat grinder. Consistency minced meat must match the minced meat for cooked sausages.

Connect chopped meat With stewed vegetables and ketchup. Stir until smooth, put the minced meat in the refrigerator for 40-60 minutes. Remove a few cabbage leaves from the head. Beat them lightly with a hammer, or hold over steam to soften.

Grease a heat-resistant form with fat, sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Cover the bottom of the mold with prepared cabbage leaves, put the minced meat on them, level the surface. Put a few more leaves on top, grease them and sprinkle with crushed breadcrumbs. Bake in the oven until the meat is tender. Transfer to a platter by cutting the lazy cabbage rolls into rectangles. Drizzle with ketchup.

4. Lazy cabbage rolls with minced meat and mushrooms with horseradish

Grocery list:

Minced pork and beef 700 g

Fried honey mushrooms 150 g

Onions 100 g

Carrots 180 g

Boiled rice 230 g

Egg 1 ½ pcs.

Vegetable oil 80 ml

Cabbage 300 g

Ryazhenka (4%) 100 ml

Ground pepper

Bay leaf

Cheese, soft 250 g

Cooking procedure:

Saute onions and carrots. Connect them with fried mushrooms and minced meat. Pass through a meat grinder, season with salt and spices, add rice. Mix thoroughly and beat the minced meat. Form flat semi-finished products into a rectangular shape. Place them in a prepared baking sheet.

Use a blender to beat the eggs, fermented baked milk, grated cheese and chopped cabbage into a thick, homogeneous mass. Put some of the shredded cabbage temporarily aside: you will need it to decorate the dish.

Preheat the oven to two hundred degrees. Pour the prepared sauce portionwise over the semi-finished products. Bake for 5-7 minutes, until a thick mass forms on top of the minced meat. Remove the baking sheet for a minute and pour in the remaining mixture of eggs, fermented baked milk, cabbage puree and cheese. Bake until tender, seasoning lazy cabbage rolls with spices, placing bay leaves on a baking sheet.

It is convenient to bake a dish in this way in portioned dishes.

5. Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls with minced pork and beef liver with buckwheat

Compound:

Buckwheat groats 100 g

Beef liver 300 g

Sour cream, homemade (36%) 100 g

Onions, onions 150 g

Pork 800 g

Garlic 50 g

Pepper 20 g

Eggs 2 pcs.

Cabbage 0.5 kg

Margarine 120 g

Cooking method:

Stew finely chopped cabbage and onions in margarine, adding sour cream and spices. Cut the liver into small pieces and fry. Let cool. Pass the prepared pork pulp through a large wire rack. Add all other ingredients and grind again using a finer wire rack. Add cereals, beat in eggs, mix the minced meat well, put in the refrigerator for an hour, covered with plastic. Grease a baking dish with fat, put the formed semi-finished products of a cylindrical shape on it, pour sour cream on top.

Form a larger container of water and cover with foil. Gently transfer the dish to a preheated oven and simmer at 200 ° C. After half an hour, remove the tray, remove the foil, sprinkle the lazy cabbage rolls with chopped garlic and keep in the hot oven for another 5 minutes. Serve with boiled potatoes decorating with lettuce leaves or Chinese cabbage, slices boiled eggs and sprigs of curly parsley.

6. Lazy cabbage rolls with peasant minced meat

Ingredients:

Meat (fillet) 900 g

Ryazhenka 0.75 l

Bay leaf

Cabbage, fresh

Parsley

Oil 100 ml

Operating procedure:

Wash the rice and soak for two hours. Chop cabbage and onion finely. Fry the onion with flour in a deep skillet. When the onion turns golden, pour in the fermented baked milk, add spices. In a broiler or similar saucepan, fry the meat, cut into small pieces, until golden brown... Pour in the prepared sauce by rubbing it through a sieve. Place a layer of rice, finely chopped cabbage on the meat.

The liquid should completely cover the contents of the pot. The cabbage layer can be crushed with a spoon until it is completely immersed. Cover the pan with a lid and simmer over the lowest heat. If necessary, add milk or water during the braising process. Five minutes before the end of stewing, add herbs and bay leaves, test the dish for taste.

Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls - useful tips

• Vegetables - cabbage, onions, and also foods containing fat give juiciness to lazy cabbage rolls. In the process of preparing minced meat for stuffed cabbage, pay attention to the ratio of solid and liquid components.
• The liquid in the minced meat should not in total exceed 1/3 of the total weight of the minced meat. Otherwise, during heat treatment, cabbage rolls will greatly decrease in volume from loss of moisture, they will turn out to be too crumbly.
• To keep the juice inside semi-finished stuffed cabbage rolls, it is recommended to fry on high fire, until a crust forms, which protects against moisture loss. After frying, proceed to simmering over low heat.

Most housewives, when they mention cabbage rolls, immediately imagine minced meat with boiled cereals (rice or buckwheat), which is wrapped in a cabbage leaf or grape. And then it is stewed into meat broth with the addition of onions, carrots, tomato paste or fruit drink. Naturally, there are many ingredients that are used in stuffed cabbage recipes. And these hostesses will be right. This is what real cabbage rolls look like, or as some call them "stuffed cabbage".

But those culinary experts who know, know how to cook and prepare a huge variety of varieties of stuffed cabbage are absolutely right. Since not everyone has the patience, skills and dexterity to wrap minced meat in cabbage leaves, once, someone came up with a quick and easy way to cook this dish. The same thing, only in a crushed form and with a little time. This is where the name "lazy cabbage rolls" came from. There are many variations in this dish too. Various minced meat, different cabbage, all kinds of additives - this is an incomplete list that housewives use in simplified recipes for such stuffed cabbage.

You can use any utensil for cooking. But from practice, it is best in a cauldron, if there is no cauldron, then in a deep frying pan (preferably cast iron). In extreme cases, in a saucepan or in a saucepan. Some housewives cook in a multicooker. And also in the oven. The main thing is your choice.

Today I cook lazy cabbage rolls in sour cream sauce... It is gentle, healthy, diet dish from minced chicken and white cabbage, which can be recommended to our beloved kids. And believe me, they prefer lazy cabbage rolls over classic ones.

Ingredients

• chicken fillet- 500 g;
• white cabbage - 300 g;
• chicken egg - 1 pc .;
• onion - 1 pc .;
• carrots - 1 pc.;
• bread crumbs - 2 tablespoons;
• sour cream - 3 tablespoons;
• salt - 1 tsp;
• bay leaf - 1 pc .;
• flour - 1.5 tsp

Preparation

Prepare minced meat for lazy cabbage rolls. You can take any meat. I have it chicken, but turkey, lean pork, veal will do. Naturally, the first thing to do is prepare the vegetables and chicken fillet. To do this, peel the onions, thoroughly wash the fillets. Twist the onion and fillet in a meat grinder.


Add the breadcrumbs.


We proceed to the cabbage: chop it finely and put it in a saucepan. Pour in water and cook until almost cooked 7-8 minutes from the moment of boiling. If someone is afraid that the cabbage will boil down into porridge - do not worry, this will not happen. Cabbage is quite tough, especially in early autumn.


Put the boiled cabbage in a bowl with fillets, onions and bread crumbs.

Advice. Very often rice is used in ordinary and lazy cabbage rolls. You can add it if you like. Just boil it until half cooked. It is better to use round rice.


Peel and wash the carrots. It is best to grate or cut into very thin strips. Boil it a little in water. And then put in a bowl of minced meat. If you prefer, the carrots can be sautéed in a skillet until tender. Add the egg.

It's time for spices. As always, salt the minced meat and, of course, mix thoroughly to achieve the final taste. If you will not give cabbage rolls to children or your children are adults, then you can pepper and add dried herbs.


Make sour cream sauce for lazy cabbage rolls. Put sour cream in a deep frying pan or saucepan, add flour. Sour cream should be fresh. Flour is needed to thicken the sauce.


Stir the flour with sour cream so that there are no lumps, salt to taste. Pour in 250-300 ml of water and stir again.


Shape into oblong lazy cabbage rolls from minced meat and place in a skillet with sour cream sauce.


Add bay leaves.


Cover the pan with a lid and simmer the cabbage rolls over medium heat for 35-40 minutes until tender.


Lazy cabbage rolls in sour cream sauce are ready. Serve with any side dish.

Delicious and juicy, try cooking. And it's easy to diversify them, you can cook from minced pork, beef, turkey. You can cook not only from white cabbage, but also from Peking cabbage. To make the sauce sparkle with new colors, add tomato paste, spices for meat.

Cooking class: step by step recipe with a photo how to cook delicious lazy cabbage rolls in the oven with minced meat.

The invention of resourceful experimental culinary experts - lazy minced chicken cabbage rolls, eliminate the time-consuming preparatory process, do not require special skills, as a result, delight in taste, aroma and texture. Lean poultry meat is replaced with pork, veal, turkey, rice - with couscous, and the proportions of tomato paste and sour cream in a sauce-pouring vary as desired.

Ingredients:

• minced chicken - 500-600 g;
• cabbage (Beijing) - 150 g;
• carrots (small young) - 4-5 pcs.;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• rice - 50 g;
• tomato paste, sour cream - 3-4 tbsp. l .;
• vegetable oil - 1-2 tbsp. l .;
• bay leaf, salt, pepper;
• greenery.

Step by step recipe with photo

1. Rice, rinsing until clear water, boil in the traditional way. Then we rinse the finished rice again so that the grains do not stick together. On the vegetable oil pass finely chopped onion, grated young carrots with coarse shavings.

2. Add washed cold rice, carrot-onion mixture to the minced chicken.

3. Pre-chop the segment of Peking cabbage with short and thin strips, transfer to a bowl with poultry meat, sprinkle with salt, ground black pepper, chopped fresh herbs - mix the components until plastic, homogeneous mass... Chop the tender Peking cabbage leaves and put them in the filling immediately. If using white cabbage, place the disassembled sheets in boiling water for a few minutes to soften. And only in a scalded form, cut and combine with the rest of the components.

4. We moisten our hands with oil or water, form oblong or round blanks of the same size - we put lazy cabbage rolls in one layer inside a spacious heat-resistant container.

5. In 250 ml of boiling water, we dilute thick sour cream with a high percentage of fat, saturated tomato paste, spices to taste - fill in the semi-finished product to the top sour cream tomato sauce, scatter the peppercorns, bay leaves, sprigs of parsley and, without covering, put in a hot oven. We keep the first 5 minutes at a temperature of 220 degrees - we warm it up, then lower the temperature to 180 degrees and simmer for about 30-40 minutes, evaporating the liquid.

6. Lazy cabbage rolls in the oven with minced chicken - fragrant, juicy, serve, like traditional ones, with sour cream, fresh herbs, vegetables.

Calorie content: Not specified
Cooking time: Not specified

Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls with minced chicken, a recipe with a photo that I have prepared step by step today for you, consist of the same main components as ordinary stuffed cabbage rolls: minced meat, rice, cabbage. But cooking is much more convenient and simpler. The rice is boiled, the cabbage is finely chopped, all this is mixed with minced meat and then all that remains is to mold the cutlets and bring the stuffed cabbage to readiness. The mere fact that you do not need to divide cabbage forks into leaves, boil and wrap minced meat in them frees up a lot of time. The taste is more like cutlets or meatballs with the addition of vegetables. And, by the way, children eat them with great pleasure. Cabbage in lazy cabbage rolls is almost invisible, the main taste is provided by minced meat, rice and gravy from tomato sauce with vegetables. You can use any minced meat: mixed, beef, pork or chicken.

Ingredients:

- minced chicken or pieces chicken meat- 300 gr.;
- rice - 0.5 cups;
- cabbage - 5-6 leaves or a quarter of a small head of cabbage;
- egg - 1 pc .;
- salt - to taste;
- spices (Provencal herbs, pepper) - to taste;
- onions - 2 pcs.;
- carrots - 1 pc.;
- tomato sauce - 0.5 cups;
- flour - 3 tablespoons;
- water - 1 glass;
- vegetable oil - 4 tablespoons

How to cook from a photo step by step

If there is no ready-made minced meat, take chicken fillet or cut the meat from the thighs, legs. Scroll through the meat grinder. After the meat, skip one small onion, leave the larger onion for frying.

Pour rice with an incomplete glass of water, bring to a boil. Cover tightly and steam over low heat until the cereal absorbs all the water. Cool the boiled rice a little.

Mix the minced chicken, rice, add the egg and spices to your taste. You do not need to make minced meat with spicy, and if you cook for children or as a dietary meal, then minimize the use of spices.

Cut the cabbage very finely into cubes. The young can be immediately added to the minced meat, pour the denser leaves with boiling water for five minutes.

We drain the water, squeeze the cabbage. Add to the minced meat. Salt to taste. We mix everything.

If the minced meat breaks up into pieces, add a spoon wheat flour and bring it to the desired density.

We form blanks of any shape and size. Dip in flour, fry in hot vegetable oil on each side for two to three minutes.

Fry finely chopped onions and carrots in another pan. Pour in tomato sauce. We give the sauce a little fry, dilute with water. Salt to taste.

transfer to a saucepan or saucepan. Fill with tomato sauce. Cover and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes until tender.

We serve lazy cabbage rolls as an independent dish or offer a side dish: potatoes, buckwheat, vegetable stew... Bon Appetit!